OBJECTIVES This study aimed to understand the influences and decisions of households with children with asthma regarding keeping warm and well at home in winter. SETTING Community settings in Rotherham and Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS Individuals from 35 families and 25 health, education and social care staff underwent interview. 5 group interviews were held, 1 with parents ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the meals consumed by adults living in a midsize city in the South of Brazil, according to the place and preparation. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Pelotas, Southern Brazil, in 2012. The two-stage sampling design used the 2010 census tracts as primary sampling units. Data were collected on the place of meals (at home or out) and on the...

the role of education in improving quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure has been emphasized by many studies. this survey was performed to assess the effect of a confined program of home-care on the health status of patients who were receiving hemodialysis. in this research, 37 patients afflicted by chronic renal insufficiency were chosen and put into two categories randomly, 1...

Relatively little research has focused on whether countries’ political institutions affect international trade relations. Here, we address this issue by analyzing the relationship between regime type and trade policy. We begin by presenting a formal model of commercial policy that establishes that the much more important role played by the domestic legislature in democracies than autocracies le...

Despite the liberalization of capital ‡ows among OECD countries, equity home bias remains sizable. We depart from the two familiar explanations of equity home bias: transaction costs that impede international diversi…cation, and terms of trade responses to supply shocks that provide risk sharing, so that there is little incentive to hold diversi…ed portfolios. We show that the following ingredi...

I n an open macroeconomy, in which asset trade is possible, the portfolio choice of households may play an important role in understanding macro fluctuations. In contrast to a closed economy model, in which a representative agent simply holds the market portfolio, agents in each country may hold different portfolios depending on the country-specific risks and returns that they encounter. Robert...

Demonstrating compliance with the applicable regulations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) requires an assessment of the Iong-term performance of the disposal system. Scenario development is one starting point of this assessment, and generates inqui~ about the present state and fiture evolution of the disposal system. Scenario development consists of four tasks: (i) identi&ing and clas...